Reports of Cases Decided at Nisi Prius and at the Crown Side on Circuit: With Select Decisions at Chambers, Volume 1Stevens & Norton, Sweet and Maxwell, 1860 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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action admissible admitted affidavit agreement alleged amount appeared asked assignment Assizes assumpsit attorney balance-sheet bank bankrupt bankruptcy bill of sale Bovill BRAMWELL BYLES called Chambers charge claim contract coram Counsel Court creditors cross-examination CROWDER damages debt declaration deed defendant defendant's dence detinue document ERLE Esdaile evidence Exch executed fact false Felice Orsini felony fendant fraud fraudulent given guilty Hawkins held indictment issue J.-That James John Musto Judge judgment jury letter liable Lord CAMPBELL Lush MARTIN ment mortgage negligence never indebted nonsuit notice objected obtained paid party payment person plaintiff plea POLLOCK possession premises prisoner produced prosecution prosecutor proved question RAILWAY COMPANY received recover REGINA rent Richard Hartley second count Serjt shareholders Shee signed Sir F Smith sold Spring Assizes statute sufficient Swinfen tenant testator tiff tion trial Trinity Term Verdict Vict WATSON WIGHTMAN William Winder witness
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Page 154 - Evidence, provided it be proved to be an examined Copy or Extract, or provided it purport to be signed and certified as a true Copy or Extract by the Officer to whose Custody the Original is intrusted...
Page 511 - That if any Person shall unlawfully take, or cause to be taken, any unmarried Girl, being under the Age of Sixteen Years, out of the Possession and against the Will of her Father or Mother, or of any other Person having the lawful Care or Charge of her, every such Offender shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor...
Page 195 - ... compellable to give evidence, either viva voce or by deposition, according to the practice of the court, on behalf of either or any of the parties to the said suit, action, or other proceeding.
Page 432 - A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the judge prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the judge, prove that ho has made at other times a statement inconsistent with his present testimony...
Page 195 - ... on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or...
Page 424 - It extends to all communications made bona fide upon any subject-matter in which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty to a person having a corresponding interest or duty ; and the privilege embraces cases where the duty is not a legal one, but where it is of a moral or social character of imperfect obligation.
Page 599 - ... for the purpose of taking or destroying game or rabbits, any of such persons being armed with any gun, crossbow, firearms, bludgeon, or any other offensive weapon...
Page 598 - ... conveyed, as soon as conveniently may be, before a justice of the peace, to be dealt with according to law.
Page 669 - British ship, by wilful breach of duty or by neglect of duty or by reason of drunkenness, — (a) does any act tending to the immediate loss, destruction, or serious damage of the ship...
Page 668 - ... or tending immediately to endanger the life or limb of any person belonging to or on board of such ship...